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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1922-01-27, Page 7eee-e embarom B7 Prances Hodgson Barnett Toronto—Will/sin Brillinn es. • lel - Buckley Fires The 000ming Shot r b. wiirki•41 coil!Otfa Silziotional, ins trisl offer :al'eauct"..711 illeC1121a"trirideoPseti°7147) disappear'. Suckle, e,dviess a fact—urges you to IVA the —to Ity absolutely of eon IS -.10 Sadder* Bronchitis Mixture, -..the World's Wonder cough, aad cold des- troyer.Furaish your own proof, convince yourself beyond the shadow el • doubt. thatthe regular treatment will blow your cold to atoms. Not a cult do we ask. Noobligations whatever to make Iw- or thriee,.and . Even hits Pld "ifaak is ne Waren. la *Oh of 'his, and hold- Olgt thien wide *gat stood and Sook- eldown at her. "God blurs you, MI. Ann," be sad. al just blew should find You lsere. I'd have bet say last donee on The hands ire held were tr just a little, and the dimples r;trilftvellarel (Continued front last, week) in and out But her eyes were stesAy said a lovely increasing intensity "Wit* Ohould people be told? There glowed in tissue. win nothing sufficiently definite to "You went after him and brcrught Act newt pin uee cot, before you forget and exchaoge at anyof the drug stares listed W. it, 1114/41111LILYMmIted.11sorlasiseies Mean. • 142 ilalual IOW Terme. • COUPON unlink*. • but ".414 ineken necessi- g upon It was to ezti it wee a waiting fame,' His him back. He wee all wrought up, Grace wasted no Words. was told. and ie needed some one with good Temple Barholm did not know, common gesso to stop alto la time to England or "English methods. Hitt make him think straight 'before he Idea—perhaps a mistaken one—vraa' did anythiag silly," she *aid. that an English duke ought bo be deme ee say to him," T. Tembarom made to advise him. He came to me,and ties matter clear; "'Say, you've left suede a clean breast of it. He goes something behind that belongs to you. stnaigist at things, that young fellow. Come back and get meant Lady Slakes what he calls a 'bee line.' Ohl Jon. And I says, 'Good Lord, man, I've been in it—I've been hi it, I as- you're acting like a fellow in a play. dure you." That place doesn't belong to me. It It was is they crossed the hall belongs to you. • Pf lt was mine, fair that his Grace slightly laughed. and square, Little Willie'd "hang on "It struck me as a sort, of wild- eo it • Thete'd be no noble sacrifice goose Chase at first. He had only th Yoe get a brace on." a ghost of a clue—.a mere resembl- "When they were talking in that ance to a- portrait. But be believed silly way about you, aad sassing you'd in it, and he had an inetinct." He run away," said Little Ann, her face laughed again. "The dullest and uplifted adoringly as she talked, "I most unmelodramatic neighborhood' said to father, 'If he's gone he's gone in England has been taking part 'fl: to get something. And he'll be like- & melodramia=but there has been nO ly 'to bring it back.'" ire it—only a matter-of-fact He almnst dropped her hands and young man, working out a queer thing ; eaught her th him then. But he sav- bis own queer, matter-of-fact ed himself in time. way." k "Now this great change bas come," When the door closed behind them, be said, "everything will be different. Ternbalrom went to Lady Joan. She The men you'll know will lo* like had risen and was standing before the pictures in the advertisements the window, her back to the room. at the backs of magazines—those She looked tall and straight and ten- fellows with chine and smooth hair. sely bnaced when she turned round, I shall look like a chauffeur among but there WPS endurance, not fierce- them." ness in her eyes. But she did not blench in the least, "Did he leave the country knowing though she remembered whose words I was here waiting?" she asked. Her he was quoting. The intense and voice was low and fatigued. She had lovely femininity in her eyes only in - remembered that years had passed, creased. She came closer to him and and that it was perhaps after all only so because of his height had to look buman that long anguish should bit up more. things out, and dull a hopeless man's "You will always make jokes—but 'memory. - I don't care. I dont care for any- • "No," answered Tembarom sharp- thing but you," she said. "I love ly. "He didn't. You weren't in it your jokes; I love everything about then. He believed you'd married that you: love your eyes—and yeur voice Duke of Merthshire fellow. This is —and your laugh. I love your very the way it was: Let me tell it to clothes." Her voice quivered as her you quick. A letter that had been dimples did. "These last months wandering. round came to him the night before the cive-in, when they thought ho W AS killed. It told him Tem i '2 Barholm was dead. He started opt before daylight, and you can bet he was strung up till he was near crazy with excitement. He be- lieved that if he was in England with plenty of money he could track down that cardshap lie. Ile believed you'd help him. Somewhere, while he was travelling h2 came across an old pa- per with a !ot of dope about your being engaged." Joan remembered well how her another had worked te set the story afloat—how they had pone through the most awful of their scenes—al- most raving at each other shut up together in the boudoir in Hill Street. "That's all he remembers, except inat he thought some one had hit Nim a crack on the head. Nothing bad hit him. He'd had too much to stand up under and something gave way in his brain. He doesn't know what happened after that. He'd wake up sometimes just enough to know he was wandering about trying to get home. It's been the limit th try to track him. If he'd not came to himself we could never have have been quite sure. That's why I stuck at it. But he did come to himself. All of a sudden. Sir Ormsby will tell you that's what nearly always keppens. They wake up all of a sud- den. It's all right; it's all right. I ueed th promise him it would be— when I wasn't sure that I wasn't ly- ing." And for the first time he broke Into the friendly grin—but it was more valiant than spontaneous. He wanted her to know that it was 'all -right." "Oh!" she cried, "ohl you—" She stopped because the door was ispening. "It's Jem," he said sharply. "Ann • let's go." And that instant Little Ann was near him. "No, No, don't go," cried Lady Joan. Jem Temple Barholm came ia through the doorway. Life and sound and breath stopped for a sec- ond, and then the two whirled into each other's arms as if a storm had swept them there. "Jeml" she wailed. "Oh, Jem! My mann 'Where have you been?" "Pre been in hell, Joan—in hell!" • he answered, choking—"and this wenderful fellow has dragged me out of it." But Tembarom would have none of it He could not stand it. This sort of thing filled gp his throat and put him at an overwhelming disad- vantage. He just laid a hand on Jens. Tesinple Barholm's shoulder and gave --hies an awkwardly friendly push. ' "Say, cut me out of it!" he ;mid. "You get busy," his voice rather isrealdag. "You've got a lot to say to her. It was up to in,e befocre;— now, it'e up to you." ti f It as if I should die ve mes e of loving you." Jem Temple Barholm laughed out - It was'a wonderful thing—wonder- right at the gleam in 'his eyes. ful. His eyes—his whole young be- , "No, I shouldn't care a hallo', dear ing had kindled as he looked down 1 fellow. And the fact that I objected drinking in every word. would not stop the story." "Is that the kind of quiet little "No, it wouldn't, by gee! Say, I'll thing you are?" ke said. get Ann to help me and we'll send it "Yes, it is," she .answered firmly. to the man who took my place on "And you're satiefied—you know, the Earth. It'll mean board and Who it is I want?— You're ready boots to him for a month if he works to do what you said you would that it right. And it'll be doing a good last night at Mrs. Bowse's?" turn to Galton, too. I shall be glad to see old Galton when I go back." "You are quite sure you want to go back?" inquired Jem. A certain glow of feeling was always in his eyes where turned them on T. Tem- barom. "Go back! I should smile! Of course I Shall go back. I've got to get busy for Hutchinson and I've got , to get busy for myself. I guess there'll be work to do that'll take me half over the world; but I'm going back first. Ann's going with me." Bot there was no reference to a return to New York when the Sunday Earth and other widely Circulated weekly sheets gave prominence to the thee Arial Dockley's Bronchitis mixture. Tkiecoupou will not be Accepted if prase:A.1 by a-shild„ Name Address Nuie Sold in Set/forth by E. UMBACH. uWnlir the ides. )4 , b., there were ose not reig ftn&Nats ytnent of the does 44 the' ralnroad die aclaieversent of purchase, end sho that smtwe rightly eiseoteraged might dini into being equal to ad demands. Wire and there antitz- ceedlagly fresh and clean "moot store," lrrillient with the highly color- ed /*ben &detrain tinned soups and numbs and edibles in glees iare, al- luringly (presented iteelf to the pis - ser -by. The elevated railroad finch - ed upon iron supports, and with iron stairwers so t,an that they looked almost, pedlous, was a prominent fea- ture of the landscape. • There were stretches of waste ground, and high backgrounds of bits of country and woonland to be seen. The rush of New Yorictrafilc had net yet reach- ed the streets, and the avenue was of an agieeable suburban cleanliness and Vain People who lived in upper 'stories could pride themselves on having "views of the river." These they laid stress upon when it was hinted that they "lived a long way uptown." The St. Francesca was built of light brown stone and decorated with much ornate moulding. It was fourteen - stories high, and was supplied with ornamental fire -escapes It was "no slouch of a building." Everything decorative which could b. done 1r it under the title of "Living or Dead." had been done. The t -ns ranee was its it almost imposing, and a generous lay- mong especialpublic . was a success of such a nature as betrayed ishness in the way of , !tient moviac its author into as hastily writing a, flooring andd new and thick red car - second romance, Which not being pet struck the eye at once. The grill • rendered stimulating by a foundation work of the elevator was of fresh, of fact failed to repeat his triumph. bright blackness, picked out with gold T. Tembarom, reading in the library and the colored elevator boy wore a at Temple Barholm the first news- blue livery with brass buttons. Per - papers sent from New York, smiled sons of limited means who were will - widely. - ling to discard trhe ex ei temente of "You see they've got to say some- "downtown" got a good ,1eal for their thing, Jem," he explained. "It's ton money, and frequently found them - big a scoop to be passed over. Seine- selves •seoretly sunprised ,,nd uplifted thing's got to be turned in. And it by the atmosphere of luxury which means money to the fellows, too. It's greeted them when they entered their good copy." red -carpeted hall. It ,t...s wonderful, said, her soft,cosy laug'h breaking Bowse's boarding-house could be re- "Yes,—I am," murmured Littler "Sulapose," suggested Jem, watch- 'they said, congratulatin., one another out. "Look Let's begin ok around this room and see what we've got to do. alized to its fullest. No one in the Ann. ing him with interest, "you were to privately, how much eonifort and e., this ilLagainst his shoukler, fist .be glad to get them."i. S't. roomed partment were other than MrFrancesca apartments knew that But softly he had had a busy day, ant ' write the facts yourself and pass style you got in a NYork apart- nuteDid you get the groe- when he looked down at her, she bung the young honey-mooners in the fire- . . them on to some decent chap who'd ment house after you passed the eric's? his packages triumphantly. and Mrs. T. Ternbarom, as recorded . asleep. "Glad!" Tembarom flushed with Ona certain afternoon T. Tem- , • Tea, coffee, sugar, pepper„salt, oinneethe Htuabtclehtinsoofn names .inantdhe emnitsrs- ' ' "150ths." He sprang up and began to go over delight. "Any chap would be 'way barom, with his hat on tt,, back of his " up in the air at the chance. It's the head, and his arms fill! of parcels, beefsteak," he called out. best kind of stuff. Wouldn't you 'ha-ving leaped off the "I." when it sh::Ws:'iidc,asno'tb,hdayv,e"ibfeewfestckgooinftgent,c," Alicia knew, and Jem Ttemple Bar - holm, and Lady Joan. The Duke of mind? Are you sure you wouldn't." stopped at the nearest ., ,tion, darted Stone knew, and thought the old- TTe was the warhorse snuffing battle up and down the iron s'ii., ways until do it on fifteen a week." fashionedness of the idea quite the from afarhe reached the ground, ami then hur- , "Good Lord, no!" he gave back to last touch of modernity. her, hilariously. "But this is a Fifth Did you see any one who knew you Avenue feed." when you were out?" Little Ann "Let's take them into the kitchen asked and put them into the cupboard, and "No, and if I had they wouldn't untie the pots and inans." She was 1have believed they'd seen me, because ' („-,:ioii-- suddenly quite absorbed and business- 1 the papers told them that Mr. and like. "We must make the room tidy Mrs. Temple Barholm are spending 2607 and tack down the carpet, and then their honeymoon tmotoring through , cook the dinner." — Spain in their ninety-horse-ipower "Not you!" ike said. "You couldn't be! You've melted mesa. Let's see." And be slid his parcels down on SOO cot sad ,Sfoted her up in the sir es if sho bald ,been a belt,. "How ean % toff, anAlow?" :tutted out. "You denweigh end when a fellow weft.* you s got to look oat what We" ile did not sent to "leek met" par- ticularly whets be esagitt her to b* in a Vic into *rhicb who 'wooed charmingly to melt. She 1114410 ildre self part of it, with soft aro* which went at once round his nook and bold 'ay▪ !" he broke forth 101411 e set her down. "Do you *ink I'm not glad to get back?" '"No, I don't, Tem," eh. answered, "I know how glad you are by the way I'm giad myself." "You know just everything!" .he ejaculated, looking ber over, "just every darned thing—God bless you! But don't you melt away, will you? That's what TM afraid of. 111 do any old thing on moth if you will just stay." That was his great joke, --though she knew it w•as not so great a joke as it seemed, --that he would not be- lieve that she was real, and believed that she •might disappear at any mo- ment. They had beee married three weeks, and ehe still knew when she saw him pause to look at her that he would suddenly seize and hold her fast, trying to laugh, iometimes not with entire euccess. "Do you know how long it was? Do you know how far away that bag place was from everything ii the world?" he had said once. "And me holding on and gritting my teeth? And not a soul to open my mouth to! The old duke was the only one wiho me to eve you out of it." , underetood anyhow. Re'd been "That's nonsense," she answered, there." with a eweet, untruthful little fare. Ill stay,' she answered now, "I shouldn't be very sentible if I standing before him as he sat down wasn't glad you couldn't lose your and let her try it. I've just got be on the end of the "couch." She put job. Father and I are yeur now." show 'her New York." a firm, warm -palmed little hand on He laughed aloud. This was the "Yes, let us keep it," said Little/ each side of his face, and held it be- innocent, fantastic truth of it. They Ann, drowsily, "just for a nest." tween them as she looked deep into had chosen to do this thing—to spend There was another silence, and tine his eyes. "You look at me, Tem— their honeymoon in this particular lights on the river far below AM d " way, and •there was no reason -why twinkled or blazed as they drifted * they should not. Her little dream andd fro. which had been of such unattainable "Yu are there, ain't yon?" sail proportions in the days of Mrs. Tembarom, in a half whisper. Did You Ever Try .nstiksral leaf Green Tea? It hue proven joisessnt revelation to thousands of those hitherto used to Japan end Chins Greens. in her Vrettieet care and the Plat I eits***atbstl, they glowed and blazed' house with ita huge terrace and the i agsinst MINN Of buildings, and they griffins. hung it enerttous beiglsts in and -air "Ain't she a looker?" Tembarom here and there, agnismandelnelhOut min esaid of Lady' Joan. "And ain't Jens !opposite Interntingess Inas the glow a looker, too? Gee! they're a pair. and dusk ot *hair brilliancy of light, Jem thinks this honeymoon stunt of with the distant bes imee of s nearing our is the beet tiring he ever heard elevated train, at intorwati rifilwar of ---us fixing ourselves up here just deepening into is, 74141r -',*112r_ like we would bave done if nothing looked miles %low tliem, end waft had ever happened, and we'd had te evil* sparks. pr blase of Wit Went do it on fifteen per. Say," throwing slowly or esseetly so aid fro, , an arm about her, "are yougetting"Ws like et dream," said Little as much fun out of it as if we had Ann, a long silence. "And We afbestesi to, as if I might lose my job any are up kere ' birds in a not. .. minute, and we might get fired out He gave tier closer grip. of here because we couldn't pay the "Mise Alicia o said that swim. rent? I believe you'd rather like to 1 was almost down and out," be sail* think I !might ring you into some Sort "It give the a jolt. She said a a trouble so that you could help like this would be like a nest. • ever we go,—and have to go tse lots of places and live in lots of dint ferent ways,--swe'll keep ibis plesse, • and some time we'll bring ter haw "I believe it now," he said, "but I shan't in fifteen minutes." "We're both right -down silly," she "What do you think?" she said In her clear little voice. He caught her then in a strong, hearty, young, joyous clutch. "You come th me, Little Ann. You come right th rne" be said. CHAPTER XL Many an honest penny was turned with the assistance of the romantic Temple Barholm case, by writers of raragraphs for newspapers publish- ed in the United States. It was not merely a romance which belonged th England but was excitingly linked to marriage of Mr. Temple Temple Bar- -A merica by the fact that its hero 'holm and 'Miss Hutchinson, only child regarded himself as an American, and and heiress of Mr. Joseph Hutehin- ',ad passed through all the picture- I son, the celebrated inventor. From a seue episodes of a most desirably newspaper point of view, the wed - struggling youth is the very streets ding had been unfairly quiet, and it of New York itself, and had "worked was necessary to fill space with a 1 -is way up to the proud zosition revival of the renowned story, with of society reporter "on" a huge Sun- tpiotures of bride and bridegroom, and day paper. It was generally consid- of Temple Barholm surrounded by an- ered redound largely th his credit cestral oaks. A thriving business that refusing "in spite of all tempta- would have been done by the report - tions to belong th other nations," he era if an ocean greyhound had land - had been born in Brooklyn, that Inc ed the pair at the dock some morning had worn ragged clothes and Awes and snap -shots could have been taken with holes in them, that he had black- as they crossed the gangway, and ed other people's shoes, run errands, wearing apparel described. But hope and sold newInapers the -e. If he of such fortune was avrept away by had been a mere English young man, the closing paragraph, which stated one recounting of his romance would that Mr. and Mrs. Temple Barholm have disposed of him; but as 'he was would "spend the next two months in presented to the newspaper public motoring through Italy and Spain in every characteristic lent itselfto their 90 is p. Panhard." elaboration. He was, in fact, flaring- It was T. Tembarom Who seat this v anecdotal. As a newly elected President who has made boots or driven a canal -boat in his unconsid- ered youth endears himself indescrib- ably to both paragraph reader' and paragraph purveyor so did T. Tem- barom endear himself. For weeks, he was a perennial fount. What quite credible story cannot be relat- ed of a hungry lad who is wildly flung by chance into immense for- tune and the laps of dukes, so to speak? The feeblest imagination must be stirred by the high color of sudh an episode, and stimulated to superb effort. Until the public had become sated with reading anecdote* depicting the extent of his early 'privations, arid dwelling on illustra- tions which Presented lumber-yarrds in which he had slept, and the fac- ades of tumble-down etenements in which Inc had iirst beheld the light of day, elle was a modest source of in- come. Any lumber -yard or any tene- ment sufficiently dilapidated would serve as a model; and the fact that in the shifting Architectural life of New York the actual original scenes of the incidents lead been demolished lamps. It burns without odor, smoke and built upon by new apartment- or noise—no pumping up, is simple, houses, or new railroad stations, or clean, sae*. Burns 941' air and 5% new funnies seventy-five stories comma kerosene (coal -oil). high, was an unobstructing triviality. Aceounts of his manner of conduct- The, trive-ntor, F- N. Joknson, 146 himself in European courts to which Craig St. W., ,Moatreal, is offering 'he nad supposedly bee, hidden, of to *end a lamp es 10 days' FREE trial Isis hmnease popularity in glitteneng or even to give one FREE to the first envies, of his finely democratic bear. user in mien loeality wise will help lag *ken eonfrotited by emperor sur- him introduee it. Write lam bo -day rounded by theft guilty splendors for full partiesilars. Also ask him were the joy of remote villages esti to explain kow you eau get elms money howns. A thrifty ead young minor and withont ExPeriesse OT latoneY aovelist nastily hicerporeted bbn in a make $$50 be $5110 per men*. eerie, and frylittioated it open the spot Everybody knows that in Canada there ars atone Templeton'. Rheumatic Capsules Soli than all other Rheumatic Remedies combined for Rheu- matism, rteeritis, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, etc. Many doctors prescribe them, most druggists sell them. Write for free trial to Templeton, Toronto. • " Sold by N. Umbeeli. 1n Walton by W. G. NUL last item privately th "It's not true," his letter added, but what I'm going th do is nobody's business but my wife's, and this will suit people just as well." And then he confided to Galton the thing which WAS the truth. The St. Francesca apartment -house Wf1.6 a very new one, situated on a corner of an as yet sparsely built but rapidly spreading avenue above the 100th Streets'—many numbers above NEW LAMP BURNS 94 PER CENT. AIR ried across the avenue to the St. Fran- cesca. He made long strides, and ing of something highly iimusing; and once or twice he began o ..vinstle and checked himself. He ',-,ked t•approv- ingly at the tall 7 a id -its sol- idly balustraded entranc,-stops as he approached it, and whne mitered the red -carpeted hall he gave greet- ing to a ,small !nu.atte i y n iv'ry. "Hello, Tom! HOW.6 he inquired, hibriously. -You takir,g good care of tais building? Let any more eight-roen, P ?•I r :mien ? Von nt got to 'keep rigtit ni the job, you ktow. Can't hav y,u loafing bo cause you have got those brass but- tcns." The small page showed hi, toeth, in gleeful appreciation of their frond- ly intimacy. "Yassir. That's so," he answered. "Mis' Barom she's waitin' for you. Them carpets is come, sir. Tracy's brought 'em 'bout an hour ago. I told her I'd help her lay 'ern if she wanted me to, but she said you was comin' with the hammer an' tacks. 'T warn't that she thought I was too little. It WAS jestthat there wasn't no tacks. I tol' her jest call me in any time to do anythin' she want dore, an' she said sh•i would." "She'll do it," said T. Tembarom. "You just keep on tap.- I'm just coming on you and light here," tak- ing the elevator -boy as he stepped in- to the elevator, "to look after her when I'm out." The elevator -boy grinned also, and the elevator shot up the shaft, the numbers of the floors passing almost too rapidly to be distinguished. The BEATS Eummuc OR GAS A new oil lamp that gives an amaz- ingly brilliant, soft, wkite light, even betber tnan gas or electricity, Las been tested by the U. EL Government and 35 leading universities aud found th be superior to 10 ordinary oil THE END. 1 He followed her and obeyed her like an enraptured boy. The won- der of her was that, despite its unar- ranged air, the tiny ,place was already cleared and set for action. She had done it all before she had swept out the undiscovered corners. Every- thing was near the spot to which it belonged. There was nothing to move or drag out of the way. "I got it all ready to put straight," she said, "but I wanted you to finish it with me. It wouldn't have seemed fifteen per week," Inc said. "If we right if I'd done it without you. It wanted flowers we should have to wouldn't have been as much ours." grow them in old tomato cans." Then came active service. She Little Ann took off her chorister's was like a small general commanding gown apron and her kerchief, and an army of one. They put things on patted and touched uip her hair. She shelves; they hung things on hooks; was pink to 'her ears, and had several they found places in which things be- new dimples; and when she sat down longed; they set chairs and tables opposite him, as she had sat that first straight; and then, after dusting and night at Mrs. Bowse's boarding-house polishing them, set them at a more supper, Tembarom stared at her and imposing angle; they unrolled the caught his ,breath. little green carpet and tacked down "You are there?" he said, "aren't its corners; and transformed the cot ,mx?,, "Yes, I am," she answered. what Tracy's knew as a "throw" and j into a "couch" by covering it with When they had cleared the table adornirig one end of it with cotton - and washed the dishes, and had left stuffed cushions. They hung little the toy kitchen spick and span, the photogravures on the walls and strung ten million lights in New York .were up some curtains before the good- lighted and casting their glow above sized window, which looked down the city. Tembarom sat down on the from an enormous height at the top Adams chair before the window and of four -storied houses, and took in elevator was new and so was the boy, took Little Ann on his knee. She beyond them the river and the shore was of the build whichsettles cern- and-ft was the pride of his soul to ' beyond. Because there was no fire - land each passenger at his own par- fortably and with ease into soft curves place Tembarom knocked up aShelf, ticular floor, as if he had been pro- whose nearness is a caress. Looked and, covering it with a scarf (from relied u,pward from a catapult. But Tracy's), down at from the fourteenth storey 's), set usome inoffensiveorn- he did not go too raaments on it and flanked them with pidly for this of the St. Francesca apartments, the passenger, at least though a paper lights strung themselves along lines photographs of Jem Temple Barholm, of streets, crossing and recrossing parcel or so was dropped in the tran- Lady Joan in court dress, Miss Alicia sit and had to be pi.nced up when he stooped at floor fourteen. Pan -hard." "Let's go and get dinner," said Lit- tle Ann. They went into the doll's -house kitchen and cooked the dinner. Little Ann broiled steak and fried potato chips, and T. Tembarom produced a wonderful custard pie he 'had bought at a confectioner's. He set the table, and put a bunch a yellow daisies in the middle a it. "We couldn't do it every day on The red carpets were on the corri- dor there also, and rresh paint and paper were on the wa'11. A few yards from the elevator lie stepped at a door and opened it with a lateh-key, beaming with inordinate delight. The door opened intto a narrow Cor- ridor leading into a small apartment, the furniture of whioh vras not yet set in order. A roll of carpet and some mats stood in a corner, chairs and tables with burlaips round their legs waited here and 'here, a cot witla a mattress on it, evidently to be trans- formed into a "couch' held packages of bafflingly irregif ar sbapes and sizes. In the tiny kitchen new pots and pans and kettles, some still wrap- ped in paper, tilted themselves at various angles om the gleaming new range or On the closed lids of tke doll -sized stationary vrash tubs. Little Ann had been very busy, and some of the things were unpacked. She had been sweeping and mopping floors and polishing up remote cor- ners, and she had on a Mg white pia - afore -apron with long sleeves w'hiels transformed her into a sort of small female chorister. She came into tbe narrow corridor with a broom in bar hand, her periwinkle -blue gaze as thrilled as an excited child's whim it attacks tke arrangement ofits first doll's house. Her hair was a little ruffed where it showed below the White kerchief she /led tied over her Itead. The warm, daisy Diabetes. of her cheeks was amazing. "Heine!" called out Tembarosn at sight of her. "Are you there yet? I don't believe it." "Yes, Inn here," she -answered, dimipiing at him. , Send for free boot giving fullTgtey-rt wars of world-famous prep- srattonfor Eptlepsy and Fits—simple treatment. •- rromallpartn at (meet= ' ' e, 1 M. . - W.,: -A (441\ ''',.7. I 4" 140.00.; It'''. , l'el.SCnniellitrel EAR OIL RELIEVES DEAFNESS and STOPS HEAD NOISES. Simply Rub it Back of the Ears and Insert in Nostrils. Proof of sen - a. will be irfren by the drugs -ie. 74 1VIADE IN CANADA I. 11 n11_19110 CO Sates gerts, Toronto !, 'ke 1 tensulti !e. eeeen se Ave- NY City oll carnot afford to be dear. IFor Sale by E. 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